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Viennese sandalwood fan, circa 19th century, signed by Brahms and his circle of colleagues (Estimate: $3,000-5,000)
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates announced that their two-part Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Arts sale, which includes 475 lots, is now open for bidding on igavelauctions.com through November 16th One of the highlights is Marine, an oil painting by Henry Moret (1856-1913) with an estimate of $50,000-80,000. A member of the Pont-Aven school where Paul Gauguin played a prominent role, Moret was a French Impressionist painter best-known for his colorful landscapes of the Brittany coast. The paintings impressive provenance dates to Paul Durand-Ruela loyal patron to Impressionists artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoirwho was considered one of the most important art dealers of the 19th century. Morets painting came to its present owner by way of Hammer Galleries. Author Jean-Yves Rolland, an expert on the Pont-Aven school in Brittany, included Marine in his catalogue raisonné w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Victoria Clark, center, in âKimberly Akimboâ at the Booth Theatre in New York, Oct. 9, 2022. The seasonâs most moving new musical earns its place among the behemoths of Broadway. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
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| Kunstverein in Hamburg to feature work by Cory Arcangel in "Flying Fox" | | M+'s first special exhibition, "Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now" | | Dutch artists take centre stage at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale | 
Cory Arcangel. Flying Føx, 2019-2022.
HAMBURG .- Cory Arcangel brings together several recent works in the exhibition Flying Foxes, a solo presentation at the Kunstverein in Hamburg that begins today and will end on February 12th, 2023. The exhibition takes its title from a mega-yacht photographed by Arcangel in the port of Stavanger, Norway, whose ownership is shrouded in mystery. By reproducing this image on a grand scale, Arcangel sets the scene for a group of works that conflate the free-floating transmission and consumption of images online with the life cycle of global resources: from their extraction and circulation in consumer economies to their eventual appearance as assets of the global 0.1%. Arcangel (b.1978 Buffalo, New York, lives in Stavanger, Norway) is a central figure in a generation of artists responsive to recent technical developments in an increasingly information-saturated global culture. Arcangels post-conceptual practice has approached forms such as ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama, PORTRAIT, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 145.5 à 112 cm. Collection of Amoli Foundation Ltd. © YAYOI KUSAMA.
HONG KONG.- M+, Asias first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, will open the museums first Special Exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now to the public on Saturday, 12 November 2022, with HSBC as Lead Sponsor. Discover this visionary artists groundbreaking career and witness the power of art to connect and heal. Yayoi Kusama has pursued her art passionately for more than seven decades. As a young artist, she left her native Japan for the United States. She found early success, as well as notoriety, amid New Yorks avant-garde scene of the 1960s. After returning to Japan in the early 1970s, Kusama persevered through a lack of recognition and while living with a mental illness to become one of the best-known artists of her generation. Despite facing personal and professional challenges throughout her life, Kusama created a body of work ... More | | 
A trumpeter at a casement window with another figure holding an upturned wine glass by Willem Van Mieris the Elder. Estimate: £50,000-70,000.
LONDON.- The search for the elusive philosophers stone that would transform base metal into silver and gold an unachievable process generally known as alchemy was such a favourite subject for the 17th century Golden Age Dutch painter David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610-1690, Brussels) that he painted it at least a dozen times. A particularly large and impressive example, Interior of a laboratory with an Alchemist at work with a stuffed alligator hanging from a ceiling beam, leads Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale in London on Wednesday 7 December 2022. It is estimated at £300,000-500,000. The painting is being sold to benefit the Eddleman Quantum Institute, University of California, Irvine. The goal of the Institute is to stimulate the discovery of new quantum science phenomena by developing collaborations between investigators in a broad range of scientific endeavours ... More |
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| An artist's gateway to freedom and possibility | | Speed Art Museum receives more than 170 works of contemporary art from Mary and Alfred Shands Collection | | The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts receives Warhol archive from Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation | 
Torkwase Dyson in her studio in Beacon, N.Y., Oct. 26, 2022. Dyson distills stories of oppression and Black liberation into monumental artworks for her new show at Pace in New York. (Kendall Bessent/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Lurking deep within Torkwase Dysons huge architectural sculptures two of which form her new exhibition at Pace Gallery in Chelsea is a secret language of liberation. These tall hinged panels of wood, steel and glass are tinted with dark washes and punctuated at different heights by nooks and cutouts. Lengths of steel pierce each side of a sculpture and jut into the room; one is cantilevered so that its end hovers 3 inches off the floor. Upstairs in the seventh-floor gallery, facing a wall of windows, Dyson has installed a hulking trapezoid that spills onto a mezzanine, creating a passageway beneath. When I stopped by a few days before the show opened, the massive structures were in place, exuding strange energy: I felt an urge to walk around them, peer into their corners, spot details such as narrow slivers of blue steel ... More | | 
Richard Deacon (British, born 1943), Before My Very Eyes #3, 1989, galvanized steel. Promised gift of The Mary and Alfred Shands Art Collection.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- In a transformative addition to its collection, the Speed Art Museum has received a monumental bequest of 177 works of contemporary art from the private collection of the late Alfred R. Shands III (1928-2021) and Mary Norton Shands (1930-2009). Ranging from paintings, prints, and works on paper to ceramics and large-scale sculptures, the Mary and Alfred Shands Art Collection features notable works by artists including Petah Coyne, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, Zaha Hadid, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Sol LeWitt, Maya Lin, Odili Donald Odita, Kiki Smith, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Betty Woodman. With significant additions by a range of major twentieth-century figures including works by female artists, artists of color, and leading Kentucky artists, the landmark gift brings greater depth and breadth to the Speeds contemporary art holdings and expands the range of stories the Museum can tell through its collection. Alfred and M ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Self-portrait, 1977, Polacolor Type 108, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced it has received a generous donation of archival materials from the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland. The archive includes important research materials recording Warhols paintings, sculptures, and drawings, including images and documents assembled by Thomas Ammann Fine Art (TAFA) since the inception of the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné project by Thomas Ammann in 1977. The incorporation of TAFAs archive with the Warhol Foundations extensive research materials will create an indispensable resource for Warhol scholarship and the ongoing publication of the catalogue raisonné of the artists paintings, sculptures, and drawings sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation. As the stewards of Warhols legacy, the Foundation is especially grateful to the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation for this generous gif ... More |
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| Recent opening of exhibition by David Kroll at Zolla Lieberman Gallery | | Richard Pousette-Dart 1950s: Spirit and Substance at Pace Gallery in NY | | Daylight Subwaygram: Photographs by Chris Maliwat and Essay by Aaron L. Morrison | 
David Kroll, Untitled (Egret and Vase), 2022, oil on treated paper, 22.5 x 30.25 in. (image) / 29.25 x 36.75 in. (frame)
CHICAGO, ILL.- "I paint personal refuges in the form of still lives and imagined landscapes places to visit for solace, meditation and sanctuary. I work intuitively to create a connection between the viewer and the power of place, the web of life, the idea of nature itself. My approach to still life allows me to work with a number of themes that have long interested me, and draw me in again and again. Thematically I am interested in the interaction between man and manmade objects and nature. In a painted still life these ideas collapse on each other and raise many questions. Which is more beautiful a rural landscape or a Chinese vase? Which is more alive, which is more still? Is the rendering of an egret or a mountainside on porcelain more or less profound than treatment of the same subject on canvas? Is a nest a bowl? Is a vase a broken egg? And isnt all of nature anthropomorphized in the sense that, inescapably, ... More | | 
Richard Pousette-Dart, Blood Wedding, 1958. © Richard Pousette-Dart / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is currently presenting an exhibition of works by Richard Pousette-Dart at its 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view since November 11th to December 17, the presentation spotlights Pousette-Darts paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and journals from the 1950s, a pivotal decade of the artists career during which he moved from New York City to Rockland County, located in the Lower Hudson River Valley of New York state. The works in Paces upcoming exhibitionwhich is curated by Joanna Pousette-Dart, the artists daughter have never been shown together. Holistically, the presentation offers an unprecedented, in-depth look at a protean period in which Pousette-Darts painterly investigations were directed toward the extremes of color, light, and physical density, further amplified by his multidisciplinary practice that included sculpture and photography. This exhibition presen ... More | | 
Random people being themselves on the New York City subway system, featured in SUBWAYGRAM.
NEW YORK, NY.- "Yes, the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 greatly altered our existence. But the subway has to be impervious in the ways that humans are not. For that reason, Chris Maliwats Subwaygram is prescient and a rare body of work. A historical record, a testimony of our values, a parable of inequality. Moments worth preserving and studying."Aaron L. Morrison In the tradition of street photography, Chris Maliwat caught moments of random people being themselves, and in doing so, elevated these moments. The setting was the New York City subway system, both in the trains and on platforms, and the culture and personality of this particular transit system is on display. Distinguishing this body of work is, in part, the timeline. These portraits were taken the two years prior and the two years after the first COVID-19 cases were detected in Manhattan, and the book layout and photograph sequencing are structured to reflect this. ... More |
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| "Mel Bochner: Seldom or Never Seen 2004-2002" now on view at Peter Freeman, Inc. | | Andrew Kreps Gallery opens the exhibition of "Cheyney Thompson: Intervals and Displacements" | | Anna Dickinson & Hulda Guzman solo shows open at von Bartha Gallery | 
Installation image courtesy of the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Freeman, Inc., has begun the presentation of Mel Bochners ninth exhibition at the gallery. Following his recent drawings retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago (April August 2022), this is a survey of paintings executed on various surfacescanvas, velvet, paper, and directly on the wall. The presentation that started on November 10th will end on January 7th, 2023. These text-based works pulse with a strong vein of irony and humor. Words, and phrases, spill, drip, and accumulate to the point of obliterating themselves in palimpsests of illegibility. They sit on, or recede into the substrate, they also emerge from it, as thickly pigmented forms, and three-dimensional reliefs, reenacting the current state of our national discourse. Mel Bochner was born in Pittsburgh in 1940. He studied painting and philosophy, earned his BFA from the Carnegie Institute of Technology ... More | | 
Cheyney Thompson, Displacement (41616, 5), 2022.
CORTLANDT ALLEY, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery recently began an expansive, dual-part exhibition by Cheyney Thompson staged across two venues, in collaboration with Lisson Gallery in New York. Presenting four distinct, ongoing bodies of painting and drawing, both exhibitions evince Thompsons thoughtful practice, featuring the connective strands of control, combination, and constraint. At Andrew Kreps Gallery, Thompson continues his Displacement series of paintings, each of which also begins life as a homage to the standardized grid. After laying down this regimented ground, a series of custom-made silicon tools are employed to disrupt the still-wet, gridded surface and impose the abstracting, chaotic force of the artists interventions. Making drags and smears across the surfaces of these works, as though swiping a hand across a screen or tablet, Thompson rearranges the five-millimeter, ... More | | 
Anna Dickinson, "Grey, White, Black", 2022. Courtesy of Anna Dickinson, Photo : Robert Hall.
BASEL.- Von Bartha is now presenting two solo exhibitions by internationally renowned artists Anna Dickinson and Hulda Guzmán in the gallerys Basel space, that opened yesterday and will end 28 January 2023. In a significant departure for the artist, Anna Dickinsons new body of work invites viewers to interact with her glass and metal sculptures in new ways. For Guzmáns first solo exhibition in Switzerland, the artist displays a new series of paintings. In the gallerys North space, the first thematic Exploring the archive exhibition looks at von Barthas relationship to Surrealist artists over its 50 year history. Anna Dickinson PORTAL Anna Dickinsons unique glass pieces experiment with innovative material combinations, often allowing the material to guide and govern the creative process. Drawing inspiration from across the art and design spheres, Dickinsons work is particularly in ... More |
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 House & garden tour celebrates some of the finest examples of East Hampton architectureEAST HAMPTON, NY.- The East Hampton Historical Society announced the 37th annual House & Garden Tour, celebrating some of the finest examples of East End architecture. This years tour consisting of five distinguished houses spanning five centuries is scheduled for Saturday, November 26, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. The East Hampton Historical Societys House Tour Committee has creatively selected houses that express the unique spirit of living on the East End. From the 17th Century to the present day, the societys annual House Tour offers a one-time-only glimpse inside some of our towns most storied residences. Drenched in history, pedigree, and local lure, this years tour is sure to inspire, delight and invite appreciation for the stewardship ... More  Alvaro Barrington's first personal exhibition "Sea both Sides" at Casa Corbellini- WassermanMILAN.- MASSIMODECARLO is now presenting Alvaro Barrington's first personal exhibition in Italy: "Sea both Sides", on view at Casa Corbellini- Wasserman in Milan until December 6th, 2022. Referencing both Jay-Zs I keep one eye open like CBS and Frank Oceans I see both sides like Chanel Barringtons "Sea both Sides" is a very personal take on this play on words: having moved to the United Kingdom, Barrington reflected on his experience in London, across the sea from New York City, and being able to see new, multiple sides of the United States from his new vantagepoint. "Sea both Sides" premieres Barringtons first sculpture: NO Work on the Block, aka Gated Community, Milan, 2022, is a monumental structure that resolutely, imposingly inhabits the space that used to be Casa Corbellini-Wassermans central living room. Its volume, chain and metal structure is as intimidating as it draws th ... More  "Projection 006: Isabella Cuglievan presents The Wallpaper of the Forest at Chart GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- CHART is now presenting our sixth PROJECTION exhibition, The Wallpaper of the Forest, a presentation of five new abstract paintings by Isabella Cuglievan. The exhibition began on Thursday, November 10th, from 6 8 pm, and will be on view through Saturday, January 7th, 2023. The exhibition, which takes its title from a line by scientist and bryologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, who elegantly examines a common but largely overlooked element of the natural world, features Cuglievans artfully constructed paintings, each inundated with intricate and exacting brushstrokes. Patterns are painstakingly applied by hand, as the artist slowly and delicately builds a web of symmetrical compositions, that are one part disciplined control, and one part kaleidoscopic explosion. Isabella Cuglievan (b. 1993, Peru) lives and works in Lima, Peru. The artist received a BA from Middlebury ... More  "Black and White and Dead All Over" comic book pages from 'Sin City' on auction at HeritageDALLAS, TEXAS.- The man who remade comics pulls coveted images of Marv, Nancy and Goldie from the vault for Heritages November event. Frank Miller thought, at first, that his visit to Sin City would be a brief stay: "six eight-page chapters," he said recently, and nothing more. The story was introduced with little fanfare as one of myriad tales appearing in April 1991's Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special, its title teased last on the cover's lengthy list of goodies promised inside. But as he approached the story's end, or so he thought, Miller realized "this was my vehicle," he says now. "And I wasn't going to have to throw away a car I made especially for myself." That inaugural Sin City story, later rechristened "The Hard Goodbye," wound up filling more than 400 pages spread across a dozen issues of Dark Horse Presents in '91 and '92. It introduced characters ... More  Textile Museum of Canada presents today Simone Elizabeth Saunders, u.n.i.t.y.TORONTO.- The Textile Museum of Canada will present Simone Elizabeth Saunders: u.n.i.t.y., an exhibition of works by Simone Elizabeth Saunders, evoking personal history, Afro diaspora, and Black sisterhood through portraits created with bold, colourful textiles. Saunders dramatic tufted works incorporate motifs from her Jamaican heritage and engage with sociocultural factors to reclaim power from oppressive ideologies. Saunders background in theatre arts informs her practice as she integrates dramatism and story-telling within her singular creations. Organized by Contemporary Calgary Senior Curator Ryan Doherty, the exhibition will be on view in Toronto from October 12, 2022, to January 29, 2023. Borrowing iconography from her Jamaican heritage, art history, literature, music, and current events, Saunders depicts single female figures, each a montage of powerful, ... More  Melbourne artists to adorn Parthenon tribute in contemporary artworksMELBOURNE.- The NGV has announced the first three Melbourne artists to layer the 2022 NGV Architecture Commission Temple of Boom with dynamic and eye-catching painted artworks this summer. Opening on 22 November, this years commission in the NGV Garden is a contemporary tribute to global architecture icon, The Parthenon on the Acropolis. Ranging from vibrantly coloured floral motifs to optical illusions, the artworks draw inspiration from the colourful and artistic embellishments that covered the original building over two-thousand years ago. Designed by Melbourne-based architects Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang, Temple of Boom invites audiences to consider the effect of time on all architecture as the structure gradually transforms with artworks and murals, painted in three phases between November 2022 and August 2023. The first round of participating artists ... More  A Mexican American artist finds heroes in farmworkersLONG BEACH, CA.- For his most ambitious artwork to date, Narsiso Martinez has made a painting that looks like an enormous dollar bill issued by an imaginary country that actually values its working class. Filling most of a wall of his current show at the Museum of Latin American Art, it has roughly the same dimensions as U.S. paper currency and some of the same symbols, with decorative medallions in the corners and a framed portrait in the center. Only the subject of this portrait is not an American founding father but a hero of another kind: a California farmworker from Mexico, shown in semi-profile with her thick, black hair tied back and her gaze strong and direct. At either side are farmworkers in full gear: masks to protect them from pesticides, hats to shield them from the sun, and goggles or sunglasses for both. Other scenes complete the artwork, which draws on the Mexican ... More  Clarke Auction Gallery's sales results soar to over $1.5 millionLARCHMONT, NY.- Important paintings, fine jewelry and striking decorative objects ranging from Japanese vases to tiny gold boxes drove Clarke Auction Gallerys October 29-30 auction to a grand total of over $1.5 million. There was no one superstar lot but many lots that were notable, many outperforming their estimates, and 16 lots that hammered for over $10,000 apiece. Quality plus quantity were buzzwords bandied about for this auction that was packed with over 800 lots carefully sourced from fine estates across Westchester and Connecticuts gold coast. One estate in particular, from a former gallerist who lived in Hollis, Queens, and worked in the jewelry industry most of his life. His relatives consigned many of the jewelry items in the second session from his estate. Overall, the sale offered a rare grouping of very fine items across the board from collectors who had ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor Auguste Rodin was born November 12, 1840. François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 - 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. In this image: Auguste Rodin. Mignon (Rose Beuret). 1867-68.The Baltimore Museum of Art: Partial and promised gift of Therese and Richard Lansburgh, Baltimore, BMA 1998.532.
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